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Weasel Words Are Our Mental Traps

we are surrounded by weasel words mental traps we set for ourselves to shut down all rational discussion in truly Orwellian fashion these words are legend everyone uses them no one thinks about them what they really mean I had no choice of course, one always has a choice Failure is not an option nothing but macho BS of course failure is always an option that one must be prepared to face and my favorite zero tolerance which converts all violations of the Rules into class A murder like felonies and common sense and discretion thrown out the window under the proverbial bus where the full SWAT Imperial storm troopers Robot cops are deployed to arrest a teenage girl her crime giving a classmate a Tylenol which is a legal drug but under zero tolerance that is the same as selling heroin and she will be charged with a class A drug offense following her around for her life for having dared to break the stupid rule yes weasel words are everywhere our mental traps designed to keep us from thinking and acting so throw off your mental traps break free from the weasel words and perhaps we can be free of these mental traps

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